Priya Seetharaman

Academic Background:

• Fellow in Management - Doctoral Programme of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
• M.Com (University of Madras)
• B.A. Corporate Secretaryship – Ethiraj College (University of Madras)

Courses Taught:

• Foundations of Information Systems (Doctoral Level Course)
• Seminar on Information Systems Research (Doctoral Level Course)
• Information Systems (Planning and Management) [MBA Level]
• Tech@Work [MBA Level and Exec MBA Level Course]
• Strategic Management of Information Technology [MBA Level Course]

This year I am also coordinating the PGDBA course on Contemporary Business Analytics. This class is supported by DataCamp. https://www.datacamp.com/ - an intuitive learning platform which uses the learn-by-doing methodology and combines it with short expert videos and hands-on-the-keyboard exercises.

Research Interests:

• IT Strategy,
• IT Governance,
• e-Governance,
• Healthcare IT
• Smart Cities
• Technology Adoption
• Impact of Technology
• Systems thinking and its applications

Experience

Consulting Interests:

• Digital Strategy,
• IT Governance,
• e-Governance,
• Healthcare IT
• Technology Adoption
• Impact of Technology

Work Experience:

• Professor, MIS Group, IIM Calcutta (Since July 2021)
• Associate Professor, MIS Group, IIM Calcutta (April 2013 to July 2021)
• Assistant Professor, MIS Group, IIM Calcutta (April 2009 to March 2013)
• Full Time Visiting Assistant Professor, MIS Group, IIM Calcutta (May 2006 to March 2009)

Current Projects:

Research Projects:

• Planning Smart Cities to Promote Civic Engagement and Stakeholder Participation (Externally Funded Project)
• Information Technology Use Maturity (internally funded)
• Public Health in West Bengal: Systems and Processes (internally funded)

Past Projects:

• Information Technology Governance Practices in India (internally funded research project)

Journal Publications:

• Dutta, A., Roy, R., and Seetharaman, P. 2022. “An Assimilation Maturity Model for IT Governance and Auditing,” Information & Management (59:1). Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2021.103569.
• Pankaj, L. and Seetharaman, P., 'The Balancing Act of Social Enterprise: An IT Emergence Perspective', International Journal of Information Management, 57, 2021
• Banerjee, S. and Seetharaman, P., 'How attractive is a locale to e-tailers? Introducing a regional e-tailing adoption model for India’, IIMB Management Review (forthcoming)
• Elangovan, P., Seshadri, S. and Seetharaman, P., 6B - T: Charting the course of your Digital Transformation’, IT Professional [Practitioner Journal]
• Seetharaman, P., Business Models Shifts: Impact of Covid-19, International Journal of Information Management, Volume 54, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102173
• Seetharaman, P., Mathew, S.K., Sein, M.K. and Tallamraju, R. B., Being (more) Human in a Digitized World (Guest Editorial) Information Systems Frontiers, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s10796-020-10020-9
• Mithas, S., Murugesan, S. and Seetharaman, P., What is Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy?, IT Professional, vol. 22, no. 2, March-April 2020, Pages 4-9, doi: 10.1109/MITP.2019.2957620. [Practitioner Journal]
• Seetharaman, P. and Bhatt, E., Online peer victimization (Guest Editorial), Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/15228053.2019.1667665
• Nandy, M. and Seetharaman, P., Inter-Organizational Processes in Buyer-Supplier Dyads: An Information Intensity Perspective, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 96-114, DOI:10.1080/10919392.2018.1554280
• Seetharaman, P., Cunha, M. A., and Effah, J., IT for the informal sector in developing countries: A broader perspective (Guest Editorial). The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Volume 85, Issue 3, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/isd2.12093.
• Dutta, A., Puvvala, A., Roy, R., Seetharaman, P., Technology Diffusion: Shift Happens – The Case of iOS and Android Handsets, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 118, 28-43, May 2017.
• Anand, A., Seetharaman, P., Vaidya, S.D. Role of project owner in e-government project sustainability, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2016.
• Seetharaman, P., Cheeni : A Case of Inside-Out Innovation Approach to IT Applications, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2013.
• Dutta, A., Roy, R., Seetharaman, P., Course management system adoption and usage: A process theoretic perspective, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 29, Number 6, 2013, pp. 2535 - 2545
• Ingawale, M., Dutta, A., Roy, R., Seetharaman, P., Network Analysis of User Generated Content Quality in Wikipedia, Online Information Review, an Emerald journal, Volume 37, Number 4, 2013.
• Seetharaman, P. and Sajjad, A.A., Ashok Leyland: IT in Transition Journal of Cases on Information Technology, an IGI Journal, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 57-73.
• Vaidya, S.D. and Seetharaman, P., Explaining Sophistication in Collaborative Technology Use: A Context-Technology Fit Perspective, Group Decision and Negotiation, Volume 20, Issue 2, Kluwer, 2011.
• Vaidya S.D. and Seetharaman, P., Sources of Unstructuredness in Decision Situations: Towards a framework for DSS Development in ‘Decision Support for Global Enterprises’, Annals of Information Systems Series, Springer Publishing, Volume 2, 2007.
• Paul, S., Samarah, I., Seetharaman, P. and Mykytyn, P.P. A Question of Collaboration: An empirical investigation of Group Decision Support System-based global virtual teams, Journal of MIS, M. E. Sharpe Inc., Vol. 21 (Winter 2005) No. 3, pp. 185-222.
• Paul, S., Seetharaman, P., Samarah, I. and Mykytyn, P.P. Impact of Heterogeneity and Collaborative Conflict Management Style on the Performance of Synchronous Global Virtual Teams. Information & Management, Elsevier, Vol. 41 (January 2004) pp. 303-321.